I had some free time after an RBA field trip today and headed to Montezuma to bird a bit in the gray and soggy afternoon. I actually had quite a bit of fun, from watching the Armitage Road eagles while Pileated Woodpeckers called in the woods (one eventually was seen flying across the road towards the other) to picking out the two Snow Geese across Knox-Marcellus, to the the visitor's center to the Northern Wetlands to the MAC and then to South Butler on my way home. My first stop, at Huckleberry Swamp (is that in Huron or in Rose?) yielded my hoped-for Rusty Blackbirds, at least four amongst the Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds - but not much else. Wood Ducks, I guess. Other highlights:
Picking through the ducks at Knox-Marcellus So many Coots at Tschache! Sharing scope views with new visitors Chatting with Linda at the Visitor's Center Osprey (my FOY) along East Road Watching Pied-billed Grebes dive on the main pool Mud Lock Eagle sheltering the youngsters from the rain Banded Trumpeter Swans #206 & 307 at Turtle Pond Unbanded Trumpeter Swans (as far as I could tell) at Warder Marsh in S. Butler Kestrels at the Nest Box on Morgan Road Navigating my poor car down Van Dyne Spoor to the end, picking up no additional species for my trouble :) Blue-winged Teal numbers going up up up Turkeys in the fields on East Road, strutting quickly Rough-legged Hawk at Carncross Hot coffee for the trip home! Sorry for the short report: usually I'd use more adjectives and other assorted parts of speech, but I'm pretty tired. :D -kimberly -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
